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Cornell University Press Desiring Whiteness: Racial History of Prostitution in France & Senegal

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Desiring Whiteness uncovers the intertwined histories of commercial sex and racial politics in France and the French Empire from 1848 to 1950. Since the French Revolution of 1789, the absence of laws banning interracial marriages has reinforced myths about modern France as a sexual democracy and colour-blind nation where all French citizens can freely marry regardless of race. Caroline Sequin challenges the narrative of French exceptionalism by revealing how prostitution regulation policed intimate relationships across racial and colonial boundaries. This critical examination of French colonial history, racial ideology, and sexual politics exposes the contradictions between France's egalitarian ideals and its enforcement of racial hierarchies through intimate surveillance. Essential reading for scholars of colonial studies, race theory, gender history, and French cultural studies.

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Explores prostitution regulation as a mechanism for policing interracial relationships in France and colonial Senegal between 1848 and 1950.

Challenges the myth of French exceptionalism by demonstrating how racial politics shaped intimate life despite the absence of formal antimiscegenation laws.

Examines the interconnections between metropolitan France and its colonies through the lens of commercial sex and racial desire.

Published by Cornell University Press, a leading academic publisher specialising in rigorous historical and cultural analysis.

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